Bar BS3

You can't just have an over entitled whinge about clubs overtaking us & not balance it with looking at clubs that we have over taken. We have no more devine right to success than any other club. Of course it can be frustrating - but how do you think the likes of Derby, Wigan, Ipswich, Portsmouth etc feel..?.

On the Rovers thread you are literally backing the bloke who said he hurled Dogs abuse at a bloke at Paddington who was with his kids wearing Rovers shirts & claiming that those who are shooting him down for it are "grown men crying about it"..!!

Plenty have over taken us.... we have over taken plenty of others... That's football..!

You gave a bloke who was at a train station with his kids "dogs abuse"..?

Especially as we all knew it was happening - it's not like we've been taken by surprise with an unexpected deadline day offer we can't refuse.... He's been gone in my mind since the end of last season & it's been inevitable since then. Good luck to him & all we can hope for now is that he does well & gets a massive money move again to net us some extra sell on clause money. Been a pleasure to watch but that's football & we have new players who can hopefully fill the void left.

5..!

Does GN's opinion "blow a hole" in any manageras ideas/theories..? I wouldn't have thought his record stood up well enough to make his opinion mean alot & his one real role model & inspiration (SAF) was the absolute master of marginal gains & mind games -. Stating that top class coaching is more important is hardly an earth shattering view point. Marginal gains are just that - marginal..!

I bet they are prowed of that flag.....

Yes that would make sense - it was probably a pre-internet thing. In reality, exact league positions don't matter until the end of games 46 & should anything be that tight between 2 meaningful placings - then the coverage & awareness of the deeper rules would well known before kick off. I was aware of it tracking back to games against each other, but didn't know that it then took disciplinary records into account.

Interesting to know! Is just my failing memory, or is it the case that when I was younger they didn't even produce league table until 3.? Games into the season.? I could be imagining that - but I'm sure they never used to bother...

Half their team were going down with cramp in the second half. We were poor today, but out fitness levels looked better than theirs.

I'd disagree. I found the decision to start Cornick ahead of Sykes baffling - hence the descriptive of "baffling" You may not agree with it & that's you perogative. For me, it was baffling & to those who sit around me.

The ones who think singing "I can't read & I can't write....." is either clever, funny or ironic.... rather than cringing embarrassing..?! It should be great having a singing section in that area - but it is just embarrassing.

You stood in the queue for a pie to have a wee.? Or did they not have any pies available at the urinals.?!

I never understand going to a football match & then missing nearly 10 mins of the match to go & stand in a queue. It's like people who start heading for the exits on 80/85 mins... Always makes me wonder why they bother going in the first place. In fairness, I was at the Mansfield match - so would never leave a game early.!

Isn't half time quite a good time for kiosks to be selling out.? Having covered pre-match & into the interval..? I'm sure they'd prefer that to having loads left in the hope of shifting them at the end of the game. Running out during half time seems pretty good to me & nobody is going to starve in the coming hour until they can get something elsewhere.

I didn't think we looked unfit. We didn't look like we had any game plan or ideas, or shape to our play. When their players were struggling with cramp, we still couldn't muster any composed control of the game.

I think most were surprised not to see Conway & Sykes in the starting 11. Especially with AS out injured, surely you want your strongest players filling in elsewhere. I thought he ran willingly & did OK generally - as he usually does (I'm not a hater of his atall) but there is no way that starting Cornick over Sykes is picking your strongest possible 11 - imho. The rest of the team was pretty straightforward selection, granted - but baffling by way of leaving 2 or 3 of your most attacking threats on the bench, against an average team, coming into the season off the back of a crap pre-season, at home, in front of a sell out crowd - it felt like an opportunity missed and so it proved to be.

Would it not have been more respectful to Chris to concentrate on applauding (wasn't the applause done before kick off - the unexpected picture of him on the boars during the game seemed a bit odd, just having done an obvious minutes applause) rather than scouring the stands to see who was & wasn't applauding.? Very odd thing to get worked up about & even more odd to put it down to "snobbery"

Disappointing today. Baffling team selection before the start. Lack of game plan or purpose from the start & failed to stamp our authority on a bang average team that looked fairly unfit & there for the taking. Pre-season optimisms sharply put back into the reality of probably an inconsistent, frustrating season ahead, where we don't get the best out of our players & will be relying on key players to stop up to win us games - rather than taking a strangle hold of the opposition & dictating games. Of course - a massive over reaction based on today's disjointed & uninspiring performance - based on more of the same old, same old - when I was hoping we'd look fresh & exciting. Maybe that will come - but today was pretty drab.

Possibly being naive here here, but I really can't see why there should be any notable problem at the entrances today - proving the tickets scan properly.! I'd only received my digital ticket & not my sons (email was an old on on his account apparently). Matt at supporter services sorted it all out straight away after a 30 min queue to get through. As long as people have addressed any obvious issue in the lead up to today, then there should be no issues in people scanning & moving straight through. Mine has also changed to Birmingham, but with today's date - providing that doesn't cause scanning issues, then it should all be very straightforward... Any bblipin the system & yes, utter chaos will arise - but until that becomes evident - I think people are creating potential problems in their own mind.

The great fanbase...... that now have nowhere to sit..!

I doubt it will be that many. You've made no allowance for limited capacities in safe standing areas & other general allowances that tend to need to be made for football matches, which lower the actual 27,000 seats available before you even start. About 22k is probably more likely, if PNE are only bringing 1k. It's a shame the Atyeo capacity can't be easily split to allow extra home capacity, in cases like this.

That was hilarious- but does it trump not qualifying for the post 1st round league Cup play off - by not being in the football league..?!

Just asking out of interest, for a friend.... What sort of circumstances may disrupt a planning committee meeting & cause it to be delayed by a month or six....?